--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@h...> wrote:

> Looking at the De Lorme Atals, the Intracoastal waterway would seem

to be

> the spot chosen for the line. It and the swamp around it isolated

the south

> of Gulf county from the north, and the southern half was connected

to the

> rest of Florida to the east by rail, while the north, though

unrailed, seems

> more in contact economically and infrastructurally with the west of

Florida.

> White city is a small town on the north side of the waterway.
> RandMcnally seems to show the waterway and the time zone are on

slightly

> different paths, and De Lorme doesn't show the time zone path, but

the

> waterway would seem a 'natural' bounsdary to follow if
> one doesn't follow the county lines, which are unatural.

I think the waterway is the most logical choice, too. Rand McNally
isn't very precise when it comes to time zone boundaries, anyway, so
I don't lend much weight to the fact that their paths are slightly
different.

> The zone heads south down the Al/Ga line, so following the

Apalachicola

> river to the sea is the natural extension of this. Obviously they

deviated

> the line to the west in the S of Gulf county to include the head of

the

> railroad from there to the rest of FLorida.
> Makes sense not tosever the railroad at one end over a distance of

a few

> miles for a time zone.
>
> Of course there's also the old joke about flights from Sydney to

Auckland:

> "Ladies and Gentlemen, we have just landed at Auckland

International

> Airport. Please set your watches back twenty years."
>

One of the standard Dutch jokes, told in any town A, where the
inhabitants don't like town B and its inhabitants very much: What is
yellow and goes back in time? The bus to town B! (public transport
buses are yellow in nl).

Peter S.